Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

How is property given? By restraining liberty; that is, by taking it away so far as necessary for the purpose. How is your house made yours? By debarring every one else from the liberty of entering it without your leave.

All government is a trust. Every branch of government is a trust, and immemorially acknowledged to be so.

In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,—and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.

All poetry is misrepresentation.

The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.